Washpail.



No. 704,48l. Patented July 8, I902.

F. E. LIBENOW.

WASHPAIL.

(Application filed Mar. 26, 1901.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: [MENTOR Irdz'nandELibenow.

M 8) E 0 NE) UNrTnn STATES PATENT" ()FFICE.

FERDINAND EDWARD LIBENOW, OF NEW WVESTMINSTER, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO VASE-BOARD PAIL COMPANY, INCORPORATED,

OF SPOKANE, \VASHINGTON.

WASHPAIL.

SP ECIFIGATION forming part of Letters latent No. 704,481, dated July 8, 1902. Application filed March 26, 1901. Serial Ila 52,933. (No model.)

To all whom 270 may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND EDWARD LIBENOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Westminster, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Washpaihof which the following is a specification.

My invention seeks to provide a new and improved wash pail or bucket which will serve for the ordinary domestic purposes and which has a special construction whereby it will also serve as a simple, handy, and effective washboard, and in its generic nature it comprehends a bucket or pail of any suitable material, the walls of which are corrugated in horizontal planes to provide a washboard or rubbing surface, and said corrugations extending entirely around the bucket or pail body.

In its more complete nature my invention embodies a vessel having an upper horizontally-corrugated portion and a lower non-corrugated portion enlarged to form a bowl of greater diameter than the upper or corrugated portion to provide a bucket or pail having a washboard-surface at a point above a water-holding compartment, whereby a rubbing or washing operation can be effected without unnecessary splashing.

Again, my invention seeks to provide as a new article of manufacture a bucket or pail for ordinary domestic purposes having an upper downwardly-tapering portion corrugated horizontally and a lower non-corrugated portion, the upper part of which is of reduced diameter and joined with the bottom of the upper portion and bulged out from its point of connection to produce an enlarged water-holder. In its more specific nature my invention also includes certain details of construction hereinafter fully described and i claimed.

a in any suitable manner, preferably by terminating its upper or throat portion with a flange c to fit over a smooth extension or flange portion a, that forms the lower edge of the upper part a. The two parts are riveted together, as shown. Both parts wand 0 may be made of any suitable material, preferably of sheet metal, bent up to shape by suitable forming and pressing mechanism, and the part a, in the preferred form, is made tapering like an ordinary bucket or pail, and is also formed by crimping with horizontal corrugations b to producea washboard or rubbing surface.

In the preferred form the corrugations are extended entirely around the body a and extend from the upper smooth riinp dge q down to the smooth end a.

B designates the bail or handle hinged to the top of the bucket, as usual.

By extending the corrugations entirely around admitsof the part a being made up of very thin metal, as the crimping or corrugat-ing thereof stifiens the same.

To provide against splashing over the top of the bucket during rubbing on the sides of part a, I make the bottom 0 of greater width than the lower end of part a to produce, as it were, a reservoir, and the top part c of said reservoir is curved up toward the throat of end a of part a, so that water that splashes up will be deflected by the part 0 back into the center of the bucket and thrown back into the reservoir. Furthermore, by constructing the bucket with an enlarged reservoir said reservoir serves the double purpose, first, for holding a large quantity of water without interfering with or reducing the ettectiveness of the washboard or rubbing surface, and, second, the enlarged base of the reservoir with the water in the reservoir serves to steady the pail under the effort of rubbing the clothes on the sides.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawing,it is thought the advantages of my invention will be readily apparent.

Manifestly my bucket or pail forms a convenient washboard for washing out small articles of wearing-apparel, especially infants clothing, and avoids the necessity of using a large Wash tub and board and consequent l per part made tapering and provided with inlarge amount of hot water, and, furthermore, by reason of the enlarged reservoir or bottom part of the pail the same can be conven- 5 iently used as a boiler 0r steamer, dispensing thereby with the use of a separate boiler for heating the water or steaming the clothes.

Having thus described myinvention, What I claim, and desire to be protected in by Let- [0 ters Patent, is-

As a. new article, a bucket, having its upterna-l horizontal rubbing-surfaces, its lower part being smooth and curved outward toward the base, to deflect the splashing Water toward the center of the bucket, substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

FERDINAND EDWARD LIBENOW.

In presence of ROWLAND BRITTAIN, ELLICE M. WEBBER. 

